Resource Center to Provide HIV/AIDS Education, Health Services
JANUARY 2011 — In a ceremony coinciding with World AIDS Day, an HIV/AIDS resource center was opened in the border town of Kaya in Morobo County, Southern Sudan, on Dec. 1. Government representatives, USAID officials, local leaders, and community members attended the event.
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Expanding Voluntary Counseling and Testing
OCTOBER 2010— Special outreach events that offer HIV counseling and testing and target people who are hard to reach. Provider training on initiating these services. Pharmacists who refer clients to counseling and testing. These are just some of the approaches being used by the FHI-managed Sudan HIV/AIDS Program (SHAP) to expand quality HIV counseling and testing and make the services become an entry point to other services, including prevention and home-based and clinical care.
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Resource Centers Encourage Healthy Lifestyles for Youth
JULY 2010—An AIDS resource center in Juba, South Sudan, is encouraging healthy lifestyles and preventing HIV among youth. Established by the USAID-funded Sudan HIV/AIDS Program, the center is managed by FHI. A second center will open this year in Kaya, near the border with Uganda.
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President Obama's Special Envoy to Sudan Visits SafeTStop Site in Sudan
JANUARY 2010—President Barack Obama's Special Envoy to Sudan, Retired US Air Force Major General J. Scott Gration, visited FHI's SafeTStop Recreation and HIV Resource Center in Juba, Southern Sudan, to discuss the AIDS situation in the country and FHI's work providing services to most-at-risk populations.
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South Sudan HIV/AIDS project (SHAP)
The Sudan HIV/AIDS Program (SHAP) is a five-year contract (Dec. 2009 – Nov. 2014) funded by USAID. Its goal is to improve access by vulnerable populations to quality HIV prevention and care services in geographic "hotspots."
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ROADS Project
The Regional Outreach Addressing AIDS through Development Strategies (ROADS) Project is designed to reduce HIV transmission, improve care, and reduce the impact of HIV and AIDS along major transport corridors in East Africa. With support from USAID, ROADS is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and works in eastern and southern Africa.
Behavioral Monitoring Survey for HIV/STI/RH/FP/Malaria/GBV
FHI and the Ministry of Health of the Government of Southern Sudan conducted a baseline behavioral monitoring survey in Juba, Morobo, and Rumbek in summer 2008. More than 3,000 youth, truckers, and others who live along the eastern and central African transport corridors responded to the survey, which documents knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, reproductive health and family planning, malaria, and gender-based violence. The survey fills a knowledge gap in this post-conflict area and is enabling the Ministry of Health to track high-risk behavior among targeted groups and plan and improve services.
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Featured Donor: USAID
With funding from USAID, FHI supports South Sudan and its organizations to improve access by vulnerable populations to quality HIV prevention and care services in geographic "hotspots."
The FHI South Sudan office is here to help. If you want to learn more about the office, visit the Contact Web page.
